Exodus 30:21

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they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 28:43 : 43 These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter to the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants after him.
  • Exod 27:21 : 21 In the tent of meeting outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for generations to come.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 30:17-20
    4 verses
    84%

    17The Bronze Laver The LORD spoke to Moses:

    18“You are also to make a large bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You are to put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it,

    19and Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet from it.

    20When they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water so that they do not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the LORD,

  • Exod 40:30-32
    3 verses
    80%

    30Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

    31Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it.

    32Whenever they entered the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached the altar, they would wash, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Num 19:20-22
    3 verses
    80%

    20But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

    21“‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

    22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

  • Exod 30:22
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    22Oil and Incense The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 28:43
    78%

    43These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter to the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants after him.

  • Lev 15:31
    75%

    31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

  • Num 19:10-13
    4 verses
    73%

    10The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.

    11Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

    12He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.

    13Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

  • Lev 22:9
    73%

    9They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

  • Lev 17:7
    73%

    7So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

  • Lev 17:16
    72%

    16But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”

  • Exod 27:21
    72%

    21In the tent of meeting outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for generations to come.

  • Num 8:7
    72%

    7And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

  • Lev 7:36
    72%

    36This is what the LORD commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses anointed them– a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations.

  • Lev 16:28
    72%

    28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  • Lev 22:6
    71%

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

  • Lev 6:18
    71%

    18Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the LORD. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy.’”

  • Num 35:29
    71%

    29So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

  • Exod 29:4
    71%

    4“You are to present Aaron and his sons at the entrance of the tent of meeting. You are to wash them with water

  • Exod 40:12
    71%

    12“You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

  • Exod 12:24
    71%

    24You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

  • Lev 23:31
    71%

    31You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

  • Num 4:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.

    20But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

  • Lev 15:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    11Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 22:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3Say to them,‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the LORD while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

  • Exod 30:29
    70%

    29So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.

  • Lev 15:27
    70%

    27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Num 19:18
    70%

    18Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

  • Num 31:24
    70%

    24You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”

  • Exod 40:15
    70%

    15and anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may minister as my priests; their anointing will make them a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.”

  • Num 18:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

    23But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.

  • Lev 10:9
    70%

    9“Do not drink wine or strong drink, you and your sons with you, when you enter into the Meeting Tent, so that you do not die, which is a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

  • Exod 19:14
    70%

    14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

  • Lev 8:24
    70%

    24Next he brought Aaron’s sons forward, and Moses put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on their right thumbs, and on the big toes of their right feet, and Moses splashed the rest of the blood against the altar’s sides.

  • Lev 8:6
    70%

    6Clothing Aaron So Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water.

  • Lev 21:1
    69%

    1Rules for the Priests The LORD said to Moses:“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

  • Lev 16:24
    69%

    24Then he must bathe his body in water in a holy place, put on his clothes, and go out and make his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering. So he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and the people.